Method of making hat-sweats



(No Model.)

O. E. KEATOR. METHOD OF MAKING HAT SWEATS. No. 405,417. Patented June 18,, 1889.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. KEATOR, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

METHOD OF MAKING HAT-SWEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,417, dated June 18, 1889.

Application filed February 23, 1889. Serial No. 300,853- (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. KEATOR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have invented a certain Improved Method of Making Hat-Sweats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved method of making hat-sweats of the proper sizes or lengths for different sizes of hats.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating the ordinary method of preparing hat-sweats to be cut to size. Fig. 2 is a transverse section, and Fig. 3 is a side view, of means for carrying out my invention. Fig. 4 is a perspective view further illustratingmy improved mode of making hat-sweats of the proper size. Fig. 5 is a corresponding view of the finish ed hat-sweat joint.

Hat-sweats have to be cut to different lengths for different sizes of hats, in order that when the ends are jointed together within the back part of the hat the sweat will not be too large or too small for the size of hat for which it was designed.

The ordinary manner of making a hatsweat of the proper length is to place the sweat in a hat of the particular size, as shown in Fig. 1, and where the ends of the sweat overlap, the operator then marks with a pin or a clip of the scissors the extent of overlap. The hat-sweat is then removed from within the hat and out according to this mark.

It will be readily understood that this method of marking cannot be relied upon, even though the operator be a skilled one, and that many hat-sweats thus marked are found when out and put into the hats to be a little too long or a little too short.

In order to simplify the making of hatsweats of the proper size and to insure uniformity of work for the various sizes of hats without the necessity of employing skilled labor, I employ the following method: I provide a set of blocks or formers A, Figs. 2 and 3, of varying sizes, corresponding to the varying sizes of hats. I prefer to make these formers of the oval cross-section illustrated in Fig. 2, with a circumferential groove a,

Fig. 3. In the side view this groove is on a curved line corresponding with the curve of the under side of the hat, the groove being of a width slightly greater than the width of the sweats. The said former within the groove 04 is of a circumference exactly corresponding to the size of hat for which the sweat is to be cut. The hat -sweat is laid in this groove around such former, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, with its ends lying over one another, and then a suitable cutter F is brought down on these overlying ends or through one of them in coincidence with the other end, so as to cut through the sweat while upon the said former, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The hat-sweat will thus be made of the exact length or size to accurately fit the hat, with the cut ends meeting to form a perfect joint.

My invention is especially valuable in cases where it is desired to use in place of the straight joint at the ends of the hat-sweat a jointinade on an irregular linesuch, for instance, as the interlocking dovetail arrangement illustrated in Fig. 5. In such case the cutting-edge of the cutter is made of the desired zigzag outline indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4, so that when it is brought down onto the ends of the hat-sweat the two ends are out exactly alike, so that they will fit each other accurately, as illustrated in Fig. 5. When the strengthening-band dis pasted at the back of the interlocked ends, a very strong joint is produced. The production of such a joint has heretofore been considered more or less impracticable, owing to the difficulty of insuring a proper fit of the irregular-cut ends. Q

I claim as my invention- 1. The mode herein described of makinga hat-sweat of the proper size, said mode c011- sisting in laying the sweat around a former of the desired size, with the ends of the sweat lying over each other, and cutting one end of the sweat upon the said former, all substantially as set forth.

2. The mode herein described of making a hat-sweat of the proper size, said mode consisting in laying the sweat around the former of the desired size, with the ends of the sweat overlying each other, and cutting both ends In testimony whereofIhave signed-myname of the sweat upon the said former, all subto this specification inthepresenceof twosubstantially as set forth. scribing witnesses.

3. The mode herein described of making a 5 hat-sweat of the proper size, said mode con- CHARLES E. KEATOIEL sisting in laying the sweat around a former of the desired size, with one end overlying the WVitnesses: other, and then cutting both the overlying EDITH J. GRISWOLD, ends upon a zigzag line upon the said former, S. O. CONNOR.

IO all substantially as specified. 

